[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: net-snmp-5.8-3.fc29
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2018-042156f164
2018-12-02 08:24:31.362863
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Name : net-snmp
Product : Fedora 29
Version : 5.8
Release : 3.fc29
URL : http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/
Summary : A collection of SNMP protocol tools and libraries
Description :
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a protocol used for
network management. The NET-SNMP project includes various SNMP tools:
an extensible agent, an SNMP library, tools for requesting or setting
information from SNMP agents, tools for generating and handling SNMP
traps, a version of the netstat command which uses SNMP, and a Tk/Perl
mib browser. This package contains the snmpd and snmptrapd daemons,
documentation, etc.
You will probably also want to install the net-snmp-utils package,
which contains NET-SNMP utilities.
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Update Information:
Update to net-snmp-5.8.
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ChangeLog:
* Tue Nov 27 2018 Josef Ridky <jridky(a)redhat.com> - 1:5.8-3
- backport memory leak fixes from upstream
- add fPIE to CFLAGS (#1543853)
- use default LDFLAGS
* Mon Jul 23 2018 Josef Ridky <jridky(a)redhat.com> - 1:5.8-2
- fix unresoved error with mysql functions
- implement changes to announce soname changes
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1637573 - CVE-2018-18065 CVE-2018-18066 net-snmp: various flaws [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1637573
[ 2 ] Bug #1543853 - net-snmp: Fedora build flags only partially applied
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1543853
[ 3 ] Bug #1531020 - net-snmp-5.8 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1531020
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-042156f164' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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